Diagnosis (genus): Gymnophthalmus can be easily distinguished from other microteiids by lacking moveable eyelids, a body covered with imbricate scincoid scales, first finger reduced, presence of prefrontals, one supraocular, two mentals in contact, and absence of frontoparietals (Rodrigues 1991).

Comment

Disribution: Erroneously reported from Brazil.

Synonymy that of PETERS & OREJAS-MIRANDA 1970

Type species: Lacerta lineata LINNAEUS 1758 is the type species of the genus Gymnophthalmus MERREM 1820. For a definition of the genus (in Portuguese) see RODRIGUES 1991: 334.

Hummelinck, P. W. 1940. Studies on the fauna of Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan Islands: No. 2. A survey of the mammals, lizards and mollusks. ['Gymnophthalmus laevicaudus: 80]. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands. 1:59—108

Thireau, Michel;Sprackland, Robert George; Sprackland, Teri 1998. A report on Seba's specimens in the herpetological collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, and their status as Linnaean types. The Linnean 13 (4): 38-45 - get paper here